Game apparatus.



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GAME APPARATUS.

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ELMER H. JOHNSON, 0F NEW YORK, N. Y.

GAME APPARATUS.

Specification of Letters Patent. Application filed May 25, 1909.

963,293. Patented July 5, 1910.

Serial No. 498,149.

T o all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ELMER H. JOHNSON, citizen of the United States, residing at New York, in the county of VNew York and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Game Apparatus, of which the following is a specication.

This invention relates to game apparatus and refers particularly to a novel form of game board which is provided with a track, or the like,

is moved, representing a vehicle passing over face with a central longitudinal slot 15 to enable the riding of the block 14 over the upper edges of the strips 12.

At frequent intervals upon the face of the board 10 are positioned points of intersection where the strips 12 cross one another' in order to form by-passes for the movable object 13 and in order to make it difficult for the player to keep the object upon the main track or road during the operation of the apparatus. At the intersections of the strips 12 the same are interrupted at spaced points, the distance between the ends of the strips 12 being equal to the length of the block 14 to permit of the disengaging of the block 14 from the strips 12 in order to partially rotate the same to thereby register the block 14 with the strip 12 positioned'at an angle to the strip upon which it was originally positioned. Circular strips 16 are engaged about the points of intersection and are registered at their inner faces with the extremities of the strips 12 and spaced from the same for the purpose of retaining the blocks 14 in position and to admit of the passage of the opposite sides of the block 14 from the circular strips 16 and to enter upon one of the upwardly extending strips 12 The track or road which is represented upon the game board is porovided with a block 17 against which the lock 14 abuts when the ame is started and is provided with a second block or stop 18 at the opposite end of the track or road in order to designate the termination of the track and to which block thedmovable object 13 is adapted to be carrie In operating the apparatus the block 14 is ositioned upon the strip 12 adjacent the block 17 and moved along the strip 12 and about the board, the player endeavoring to slide the block 14 to the stop 18 in the least possible time. When the block 14 reaches one of the circular strips 16 the same slides over which a movable object the road.

An object of this invention is to form a game board over which a movable object is passed and which is provided with a track, or intersecting road, to form a tortuous path for the object which is controlled by any adaptable form of rules which the player desires to apply to the device.

The chief object of the apparatus is to form a track which is intersected with pluralities of cross tracks in order to make it diflicult to carry the movable object over the face of the game board and to carry the same to a designated point.

For a full understanding of the invention reference is to be had to the following description and accompanying drawings, in which l Figure 1 is a top plan view of the complete game board. Fig. 2 is a transverse section on the line 2-2 of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a detailed perspective view of one of the intersections positioned upon the board, and Fig. 4 is a detail perspective view of the movable object employed.

Corresponding and like parts are referred to in the following description and indicated in all the views of the drawing by the same reference characters.

Referring to the drawing the numeral 10 designates a base board which is preferably of rectangular formation and which is in the formation o a box having the sides 11 upwardly extended about the opposite edges of the same. The board 10 is provided in its face with a plurality of grooves into engaged when the block 13 will be rotated in order to register the slot 15 with any desired upper strip 12 which branches from that point of which are tted upwardly extended strips intersection. At this point the player is 12 which Jform a circuitous track for a movleft at his own discretion to push the block able object 13 which is positioned thereupon. 14 upon any one of the outwardly extending The object 13 comprises a thin strip of mastrips 12 which will bring the block 14 to the stop 18 in the least possible time.

Having thus described the invention what is claimed as new is:

1. A game apparatus comprising a board terial which can be made into any formation to designate a vehicle, or the like, and which is mounted upon a block 14 of longitudinal formation which is provided in its under off the end of the strip 12 upon which it is L having a plurality of grooves formed in the portions thereof7 a block positioned at one 20 upper face thereof, a plurality of strips enend of said strip to designate the starting of gaged in the grooves in said board and eX- an object thereover and a stop positioned at tended upwardly therefrom, said strips bethe opposite end of said strip to designate ing interrupted at frequent intervals upon the termination of the sliding' of the object the board and intersected at the interrupted over said strip. 25 portions, and segmental strips mounted 3. A game board as speoied comprising a upon the board and positioned about the terbase portion, a plurality of strips positioned ininated extremities of said strips to inclose in interrupted and intersected relation upon the interrupted portions of the same. the upper face of said base portion and seg- 2. A device as speoied comprising' a gaine mental strips positioned about the adjacent 30 board, a Wall upwardly extended about the extremities of the strips upon ,Said board at opposite edges of said board, a plurality oi' the points of intersection. strips upwardly extended from the base of l In testimony whereof I aiX my signature said board and interrupted at frequent in- 111 presence Of tivo Witnesses. tervals, segmental strips engaged upon the ELMER H. JOHNSON. [n s] upper face of said board to inolose the interlVitnesses: rupted portions of said strips, said strips JOI-IN E. BULGER, being curved to intersect at the interrupted XVM. H. A. HOLMES. 

